Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and Its Applications

by John Macfarlane

Book Overview

John MacFarlane debates how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative, and how we might use this idea to give satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that have resisted traditional methods of analysis. Although there is a substantial philosophical literature on relativism about truth, going back to Plato's Theaetetus, this literature (both pro and con) has tended to focus on refutations of the doctrine, or refutations of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198776810
• ISBN13: 9780198776819
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"